[asterisk-dev] chan_sip deprecation

[Henning Westerholt]

Hello,

I am really wondering why people are trying to keep chan_sip alive. No offence to the past developers, but pjsip is a much better SIP stack regarding standard compliance and stability compared to the old one. Also, regarding performance chan_pjsip is better. From an outside view, the asterisk project gave plenty of time to migrate.

Maybe it would be good idea to spend the effort maintaining an old and deprecated solution towards migration to the new solution. But its open source after all, you can use it as you like of course.

Cheers,

Henning

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From: asterisk-dev <asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com> On Behalf Of asterisk at phreaknet.org
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2022 7:31 PM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>; Mark Murawski <markm-lists at intellasoft.net>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] chan_sip deprecation

I've been planning to do that, though I'm not going to do anything until it's actually removed.
Anything we do in the future will probably be here: 
https://github.com/InterLinked1/phreakscript
It'll likely start by reversing the patches that remove chan_sip, and then adding features that have been added to it after the cutoff deadline for new features earlier this year (similar to what's done there now, currently).
I largely don't use chan_sip anymore but there is enough need/want for it (with likely lots of people trying to do the  same thing) that I see that it makes sense for supporting there. Obviously, nothing about this would be "officially supported"...

On 11/21/2022 11:03 AM, Mark Murawski wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> I would recommend you loop up with other users/developers who still 
> need chan_sip and start a new repo for it.  It probably won't be 
> officially endorsed by Sangoma/Asterisk but it's definitely possible 
> to keep it alive with the right team.
>
> On 10/29/22 12:40, Michal Rybarik wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> chan_sip has been deprecated in Asterisk 17 and there is a plan to 
>> remove it in 21 (expected next year).
>> https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29567
>>
>> However, we still have many things depending on chan_sip, and its 
>> replacing with chan_pjsip needs significant amount of work and 
>> testing, depending on other parties too. I'm thinking how to continue 
>> using chan_sip in the next years, while keep using latest asterisk 
>> source (master branch).
>>
>> Would it be possible to postpone the removal from Asterisk by several 
>> versions?
>>
>> Or to move chan_sip to a separate repository and let it exist there - 
>> like libpri, libss7, dahdi, etc?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>


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